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Downtown After Dark

Downtown After Dark


Downtown After Dark is award winning journalist Russ Tarby's weekly take on the best and brightest of happenings inside and outside of Downtown Syracuse. Each week he adds best bets too.

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Central New York journalist Russ Tarby has been writing about entertainment, crime, sports and politics since the 1970s. His reviews and feature stories have appeared in newspapers such as the Village Voice, the Dallas Observer, the Auburn Citizen and the Syracuse Post-Standard.

For 12 years, he worked as music and books editor for the Syracuse New Times and while there he won several Syracuse Press Club awards including a Best Feature Story award for 'The Sweet Man,' his 1998 profile of 95-year-old jazz trombonist Spiegle Willcox.

In 2000, he was named music writer of the year for weeklies with a circulation of less than 55,000 by the international Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.

Tarby was a member of the steering committees which founded the Syracuse Area Music Awards(Sammys) and the Syracuse Walk of Fame.

He has been a member of the Jazz Appreciation Society of Syracuse's Board of Directors since 1993.

In 2007, Tarby edited "Into The Deep," a book by Dr. Andrew G. Hodges about the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway on the island of Aruba.

Tarby now works as a free-lance writer and editor. He compiles two weekly columns, Downtown After Dark for the Syracuse City Eagle and Livin’ in Liverpool for The Review, both published by Eagle Newspapers.

He can be reached at 457-1517, or via e-mail at russtarby@netscape.net.



 

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Mar
11

Hotel hooley predates the parade


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Years before Syracuse’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade first marched down South Salina Street in 1982, the Flyin’ Column had been celebrating the Irish saint’s day by playing an annual hooley at the Hotel Syracuse.
The hotel hooleys started in 1976.
Though the venerable Hotel Syracuse generally sits idle these days, Pascale’s Catering will open the lobby and the elegant Persian Terrace on parade day this Saturday, March 13.
And of course, the Flyin’ Column will crank out the tunes from “Kelly the Boy from Killan,” a rebel song, to “Danny Boy,” the lovely lament for a loved one far away...
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TAGS: Hotel hooley predates the parade,Hotel Syracuse generally sits idle these days, Pascale’s Catering,Hotel Syracuse entertainment in SYracuse,Syracuse University Brass Ensemble,Russ Tarby ,Jane Monheit


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Mar
03

The Salt City Six now swing in cyberspace


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For 17 years, the Salt City Five (later known as the Salt City Six) reigned as one of the nation’s premier traditional jazz bands. The Syracuse-based combos appeared at nearly every major jazz club in the country as well as on radio and TV.
A new Web site, saltcity56.com, allows visitors to revisit that exciting jazz era.
The original band – trombonist Will Alger, clarinetist Jack Maheu, trumpeter Don Hunt, pianist Charlie French and drummer Bob Cousins – appeared on the nationally televised Arthur Godfrey Talent Show in 1952...
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Feb
24

How fat is too fat for love?


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If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, all who behold had better keep an open mind.
That seems to be one of the themes of Fat Pig, a black comedy by Neil LaBute, which debuted off-Broadway in a 2004 production starring Entourage star Jeremy Priven as Tom, a yuppie who falls inconveniently in love with an obese librarian.
LaBute’s play examines how society frowns upon overweight people and also boldly questions our own ability to change what we dislike about ourselves.
Fat Pig makes its Syracuse premiere when Simply New Theatre stages the weighty one-act at the Carrier Theatre, in the Mulroy Civic Center, 411 Montgomery St., downtown. It opens at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26, and continues Saturday, Feb...
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TAGS: Merry Mischief, the acoustic duo of Merlyn and Harry Fullerk,syracuse downtown after dark, russ tarby syracuse,enterrainment syracuse downtown,Fat Pig,comedy,Neil LaBute,Josh Canfield, Jenn DeCook, Wil Szczech,Mavis Staples,Syracuse University, Roebuck “Pops” Staples,Goldstein Auditorium,Cold Case Justice Initiative, Katheryn Guyette

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Feb
11

Panhandlers still haunt Armory Square


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Panhandlers wait around every corner Armory Square these days…and nights…

A few years ago the Common Council fussed and fumed about people begging on the streets of downtown Syracuse, but the councilors found there really wasn’t much they could do.

The solution lies with those of us targeted by the beggar’s appeals: just say “No.”

Last Wednesday Feb. 3, while I was making the rounds from Pastabilities to Syracuse Suds Factory to Al’s (no longer Awful) Wine and Whiskey Lounge, I was accosted separately by two of those friendly folks with their hands out, palms up.

A chunky little black lady on Walton Street tried me twice, once going and once returning from the Salt City Jazz Collective performance at Suds...
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TAGS: Panhandlers,Armory Square, Common Council,Guitarist Tom Bronzetti’s newest combo,Tenor Madness,Syracuse Rescue Mission,Charlie Rose,Entertainment critic Stephanie Zacharek,Syracuse entertainment,downtown after dark syracuse,russ tarby,city eagle entertainment, ellen leahy,Bronzetti CD release party,Jazz Central

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Feb
05

Hoffmann marks 10 years of jamming at Skytop


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Guitarist extraordinaire Mark Hoffmann will celebrate two different kinds of anniversaries this Saturday night.
It’s his tenth anniversary of hosting regular R&B jams at the Inn Complete, on Skytop Road, on Syracuse University’s South Campus. The Feb 6 jam also marks his 30th jam of the past decade. Music will ring out from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Hoffmann, a former linchpin of the legendary rock band Jam Factory which toured the country as a CBS/Epic recording artist, was inducted in 2008 into the Syracuse Area Music Awards Hall of Fame...
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TAGS: mark Hoffmann,10 years of jamming at Skytop, Bobcat Goldthwait’s latest comedy noir, World’s Greatest Dad,Emma’s revolution ,syracuse ny entertainment,downtown after dark syracuse,Russ tarby,Robin Williamssyracuse Skytop

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Jan
20

Rosanne Cash counts her heartaches by the number


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Rosanne Cash has slogged through hell and high water.

She began her career in the 1970s as a touring wardrobe assistant and back-up singer for her father, Johnny Cash. Before her own talents carried her to the top of the country charts in the 1980s, her heart was broken by master musician Randy Scruggs, and then she fell in love with a married man, songwriter Rodney Crowell.

Cash and Crowell eventually married, had three kids and divorced in 1992. The year before, she moved from Nashville to New York City where she still lives today...
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TAGS: Lily’s Hora,Jonathan Dinkin and Klezmercuse,Jean “Django” Reinhardt,russ tarby,syracuse entertainment,Rosanne Cash,le Moyne,Heartaches by the Number,John Leventhal,Le Moyne English Professor Michael Streissguth,Always Been There: Rosanne Cash,

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Dec
29

Sebold’s brittle ‘Bones’


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As a book, The Lovely Bones sold more than a million copies.
Good reason to assume the movie, based on the 2002 crime novel by Syracuse University grad Alice Sebold, might well attract many mill itself. But now the Bones may be cracking.
The Lovely Bones is the story of a 14-year-old girl from suburban Pennsylvania who’s murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the afterlife. That vaguely pathetic premise allows her to explore the lives of the people around her all while attempting to get someone to find her lost, dismembered body.
Directed by Peter Jackson, the film stars Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci and Michael Imperioli. That’s a ton of talent, but it may not be weighty enough to guarantee big box office...
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